The Author

Being able to paint and write as I please is a rare privilege. I enjoy an uninhibited way of life with personal satisfaction that could never be found in the business sector. Making my living with brush and pen is a dream come true, and I long for the day when I am shed of all other interference and responsibilities.

It's a rare talent for one to be gifted with both the pen and the paintbrush, and it's a talent that Jim Harrison brings to life in a special way through his books. His books are the signposts in his passage as one of America's foremost representational artists and touch on many of the subjects he loves.

About Jim

Jim Harrison's journey as an artist seems to have begun when he first climbed onto a sign painter's scaffold on the side of McCartha's Hardware in Denmark, South Carolina. The Coca-Cola sign that he began that day with his mentor, J. J. Cornforth, was the first of more than 100 similar signs he painted over the next few years and shaped the future work of this South Carolinian in many ways.